And your theory is that building vast carbon dioxide waste dumps to
contain 31 billion metric tons of a gaseous compound would be easier?

If
one builds a waste dump, it involves charging waste fees. If one
builds a power plant, one has an asset. Which one makes economic
sense? A dump or an asset?
The world's largest carbon dioxide
waste dump functioning right now on this planet contains what percentage
of the carbon dioxide as of 2014?

Anyone mentioning the
non-issues of waste (what is carbon dioxide?), proliferation (how many
people died in nuclear wars in the last half century, and how many died
in oil wars?) and mentioning the absurd the issue of safety - when one
considers air pollution deaths and fossil fuel accidents (how many
people died in oil and gas explosions compared to the number of dead
from nuclear power plant failures in the last half a century?) = while
attaching these issues only to nuclear energy and nothing esle is simply
not being serious.

Nuclear exceptionalism is simply not rational.

The
worst kind of critic of nuclear energy is one who pretends to be
rational and open about it while dragging out tiresome nuclear
exceptionalism rhetoric that simply doesn't stand scrutiny.

Repeating nuclear myths while pretending to decry their effects is not helpful, nor is it, really, ethical..

There
is no way in hell that so called renewable energy will produce 34% of
humanity's energy, as it has failed to do this in half a century of
similar predictions.

Containing 14% of the world's carbon dioxide
in a dump involves the capture of carbon dioxide involves 41 billion
tons per decade. There are, for the record, more than 30 years in a
billion seconds. What's your theory, that containing 137 tons of
carbon dioxide per second, every second, for a half a century is a
simple and cheap thing to do? Have you any idea about the technical,
financial, and geological issues involved in this outcome would be?
Your guess is that this can be brought on line in 15 years, by 2029?
Faster than breeder reactors? Russia and India both brought breeders
to completion in the last two years. How many billion ton carbon
dioxide dumps were built in the last two years?

We built more than
400 reactors on this planet in about 20 years, and they produced an
average of 28 exajoules of energy each year of the first decade of the
21st century. By contrast doing what's never been done, CSS, is
easier?

There is no way in hell that it will be easier to contain
hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide each decade when we can't
find a way to store 75,000 tons - collected over half a century - of an
insoluble relatively harmless solid as much of used nuclear fuel is.

Your
problem is that you are attempting to compare a theory that has failed
in all cases to become significant with a reality and coupling it with
the logical fallacy of "appeal to popularity."

Nuclear
energy may not be able to stop climate change in its tracks - surely it
won't, because with this kind of rhetoric flying around this late in
the game it can't - but it need not do so to be the best possible,
cheapest possible, and most experimentally verified approach to doing
so. Any money that is diverted from nuclear energy to CSS, or for that
matter, so called "renewable" energy is essentially a decision to
commit suicide at this point, whether the general public knows it or
not.

I wouldn't, by the way, put too much faith in the wisdom of
the general public. In the middle of the last millenium the general
public was pretty sure that the bubonic plague was best dealt with by
prayer rather than improved sanitation. Things are not much better 500
years later.

CSS talk has been, is and always will be the
equivalent of doing nothing, and the result of doing nothing is clearly
visible in the planetary atmosphere in CO2 measurements over the last
decade. We blew past 400 ppm this year, and we will blow through 450
ppm just as quickly as we went from 350 to here. We were at 350 in
1987, and I doubt, very much, that it will take more than 25 years to
hit 450, especially with this kind of cynicism floating around
unchallenged.